Subsidies are adequately provided to conventional fossil fuels, sending the wrong impression that power from conventional fuels is of a higher priority than that from renewables (unfair structure of subsidies)
policymakers meant for these regulations to correct three major failures of the existing market for electricity fuels: (1) electricity prices do not reflect the social costs of generating power; (2) energy subsidies have created an unfair market advantage for conventional fuels and technologies; and...
Energy transition is key to reducing the risks and impacts of climate change [59]. There is a strong emphasis on the need to transition away from fossil fuels to reduce energy-related sustainability challenges and achieve energy security [60]. However, many regions are still lagging in terms o...
Energy sources created and accumulated over a very long period in the past, such as fossil and nuclear fuels, whose creation rate is many orders of magnitude smaller than the consumption rate, so that they will be depleted in a finite time period at the current rate of consumption. ...
These features, as well as the configuration of economic, social and political relations, will account for the possibilities of implementing, not without disputes, actions that will lead to reduce the production and consumption of fossil fuels as a primary source of energy supply. The actions ...
(2) how these impacts compare to other land-use and land-cover change drivers. We find that practitioners perceive LSWS to impact biodiversity negatively but less so than other land-cover change drivers, including fossil fuels and agriculture. This highlights the need for increased attention to ...
Natural gas and oil are the primary fuels used to meet energy demand, and accounted for 94% of total energy consumption in 2013. A shortage of input fuels is a contributing factor in Egypt's Egypt's gas frequent electricity blackouts. Other factors include rising demand, aging infrastructure ...
Renewable-energy producers have long touted the promise of cheap electricity, an assurance that’s helped them eat into the dominance of fossil fuels. But the pledge has gone too far, according to the world’s biggest wind-turbine maker. ...
Less studies include distal-onset chronic adversities such as the impact of climate change, infrastructural inadequacy due to shift in means of power production from centralised to distributed, or the shift in dependencies for energy systems (fuels, materials, competences etc). A second issue is ...
The conventional centralized energy or power grid is transforming due to the increasing penetration of DG (distributed generation). This emergence of DG has disrupted traditional methods of power generation and supply to the electrical grid. Factors, such as the depletion of fossil fuels, rising gree...